The Cincinnati Volksfreund was a daily and weekly German-language

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 newspaper based in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

, and published between 1850 and 1908. The paper was founded in October 1850 by Joseph A. Hemann

Joseph A. Hemann

Joseph Anton Hemann was a German-American educator, newspaper publisher, and banker. He was born in Germany in the town of Ösede near Osnabrück and studied at the Gymnasium Carolinum in Osnabrück, one of the most celebrated colleges of Germany. He acquired a thorough knowledge of the Latin, Greek,...

 and his editorials began appearing in March 1853 in the weekly edition called the Cincinnati Wöchentlicher Volksfreund. Originally neutral in politics, it later became the leading German Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

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newspaper of Ohio.

Editors/Owners

1850-1863 Joseph Anton Hemann, founder, publisher, editor

1863-1869 Johann B. Jeup & Co.

1870-1871 Volksfreund Publishing Co.

1872-1873 Limberg & Thilly

1873-1879 Limberg & Heinrich Haacke

1880-1908 Heinrich Haacke and Co.